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Critical period for teaching 10 to 18 month old infants how to control their emotions.

The
discovery of the critical period became one of the most famous in biology in
the second half of the twentieth century. The brain is especially plastic (changeable)
and sensitive to the environment and experiences rapid, formative growth during
critical periods. Each neural system has a different critical period.

A
particularly important critical period lasts from approximately ten or twelve months to sixteen or
eighteen months, during which a key area of the right frontal lobe is
developing and shaping the brain circuits that will allow infants both to
maintain human attachments and to regulate their emotions. This system allows
us both to read people’s facial expressions, and hence their emotions, and also
to understand and control our own emotions.

A
mother who is with her baby during the critical period for emotional
development and attachment is constantly teaching her child what emotions are
by using musical speech and nonverbal gestures.

When she looks at her child who swallowed
some air with her milk, she might say, “There, there, honey, you look so upset,
don’t be frightened, your tummy hurts because you ate too fast. Let Mommy burp
you, and give you a hug, and you’ll feel all right.”

5. Turning to others for relief is often
helpful (“Let Mommy burp you and give you a hug”).

She
has given her child a crash course in the many aspects of emotion conveyed
not only with words but with the loving music of her voice and the reassurance
of her gestures and touch.

For children to know
and regulate their emotions, and be socially connected, they need to experience
this kind of interaction many hundreds of times in the critical period and then
to have it reinforced later in life.

How
the brain develops during this critical period may have long-term effects in
the life of a child. Please share this others – especial parents.

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